Localization - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2020
News

Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

in the Wall Street Journal notes that the NIH expects clinical trials to begin in 20 to 25 volunteers by the end of April. Bancel is also part of a wider effort by researchers from Harvard and other local higher ed institutions to combat... View Details

31 Oct 2019
News

Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

Clubs News Clubs News Wisconsin executives share success More than 100 alumni and guests of the HBS Club of Wisconsin gathered on October 8 at the Fiserv Forum, home arena of the Milwaukee Bucks, to explore how two local business leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

passionate about the work and strongly believed in its impact, I also began to observe the risks, limitations, and skewed incentives foreign aid creates within local governments. I began taking a longer-term view of the countries I was in... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

July 2010 (Revised March 2012)
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China 'Unbalanced'

By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor

In 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and monetary policy, China had weathered the crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Local Range; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; China

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08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be allowed to run for office in View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services

your code is correct and core usage is appropriate. Scheduling and then killing hundreds or thousands of jobs due to mistakes or problems is disruptive. See our documentation on parallelization . Heavy I/O should be done on /export/scratch storage or storage View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

News in the News Biz

turns down,” he wrote. But such layoffs, he warned, should take into account the paper's unique contribution to its readers. Bower advised most local papers to save money by not sending reporters into the field to cover national and... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Walter Kuemmerle. These realities include the importance of local context and the need to adhere to a global perspective on opportunities and access to resources. These same issues provide fascinating research fodder for the course he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

shoemakers in Italy among other industries to understand why manufacturing clusters still survive. ©iStock.com/panpipe The two shoe clusters studied are physically only 50 kilometers apart, but worlds apart in their success. The sports shoe cluster in Montebelluna... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Dec 2000
News

In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience

environment." A joint-degree candidate working on her MBA at HBS and her master's in public administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Ballou spent eight weeks in the West African nation, helping local communities rebuild their... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

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Biotech, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals: News

different technologies. Factiva - Covers news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts worldwide including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc. Additionally: HOLLIS Catalog – using... View Details

15 May 2019
News

Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’

own environmental foundation and currently directs half of his foundation’s grants to “communications and research into the psychology of denial” to help improve messaging. Part of that messaging, the article notes, includes localizing... View Details

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Tafadzwa Samushonga

local bank to improve their digital services. And she will be spending her summer internship working for an e-commerce company in the Philippines. Even while Tafadzwa explores other countries, she remains excited about business... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Shawn Tuli

Raised in Belmont, Massachusetts, Shawn Tuli is a local who has returned home after long stretches of education and real estate-related work in Atlanta, D.C., New York, and Philadelphia. “Real estate has been a theme throughout my life,”... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

amendment meant to broaden the scope and accessibility of democracy called for the creation of directly elected local councils at the district, intermediate, and village levels, and mandated that one-third of all council seats be filled... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

07 Dec 2015
News

Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome... View Details

01 Jan 2017
News

Sphere of Influence

incubators that offer training, education, and networking opportunities to women of all backgrounds and social classes. “For a program to succeed, it needs to be integrated—through partnerships—into local communities and within... View Details

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